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New comment by pixelesque in "FLUX 3 Image"

pixelesque — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:48:04 +0000

Has that been announced?

The website mentions:

> FLUX 3 Image is available under a commercial weights license for companies running image generation at scale. Fine-tune and deploy it on your own infrastructure. Reach out to us to learn more.

I guess the open ones would be non-commercial?

New comment by pixelesque in "Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake"

pixelesque — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:57:13 +0000

> which was never a realistic possibility.

Because a lot of work was done to prepare and fix potential issues.

New comment by pixelesque in "macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess"

pixelesque — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:46:27 +0000

Mission control is not supposed to print the name of the control/window visible to the user though, surely, which is what the article is talking about.

New comment by pixelesque in "OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005"

pixelesque — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:59:15 +0000

Follow up bit adds more context:

"Carter Leffer only directed GPT–6 Astra to see if it could break any of the unbroken Enigma messages published on the Crypto Cellar Research web page."

New comment by pixelesque in "What Zig felt like, coming from Rust"

pixelesque — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:38:05 +0000

> Rust had like 3 allocating types total.

Seriously? Categories of types maybe, but literal types it's more than that.

Even closures allocate if they need to capture their environment.

New comment by pixelesque in "What Zig felt like, coming from Rust"

pixelesque — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:33:29 +0000

Some of this surely stems from Rust not originally supporting allocators at the standard API level until later. You can manually create your own, and create/modify your own containers, but until GlobalAlloc came around it sometimes involved doing things like passing through Arc through to things if you wanted multiple things to use a single one.

Sometimes using a global one isn't the best thing (it's often a good idea to specialise base on allocation size, reuse and lifetimes), but I've used them quite a bit in C++ over the past 16 years doing HPC for graphics, rendering and simulation, so calling them only useful for "toy problems" likely shows you just haven't found a need for them in what you've been doing.

New comment by pixelesque in "What Zig felt like, coming from Rust"

pixelesque — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:22:02 +0000

> and is barely even supported at all in the standard library.

What does that mean?

New comment by pixelesque in "US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report"

pixelesque — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:22:07 +0000

But that was has nothing to do with the incident in the Middle East, it's a more general one.

New comment by pixelesque in "NATS publishes preliminary report on technical incident of 8 September"

pixelesque — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:11:12 +0000

Back in 2023 when the previous issue happened, it didn't actually "crash", it detected what it perceived as an inconsistency (which was due to invalid waypoint logic for waypoint codes in multiple countries) and put itself in "maintenance mode".

New comment by pixelesque in "US interest rates raised for first time in three years"

pixelesque — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:10:36 +0000

It was blatantly obvious Iran would do that if attacked. This has been known for decades.

The only thing previously stopping them holding the strait "hostage" was the threat from the US of doing an "Operation Praying Mantis v2" and destroying their navy and attacking them.

And when the US did that anyway, they had nothing to lose.

New comment by pixelesque in "German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol"

pixelesque — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:05:36 +0000

They've got the IDL files as well for the APIs, but you can't use them without their libs:

> The data model is defined using a custom format .rmodel based on the ddkit > framework (rmodel-api).

> Please note that the .rmodel data model is for documentation purposes only and > does not reflect the actual interface used on the communication layer. Network > communication is only possible through the provided libraries.

New comment by pixelesque in "German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol"

pixelesque — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:32:04 +0000

DDS sort of took over from CORBA in the military domain, and the statically-typed IDL was still quite similar to CORBA last time I looked at it, so that takes you back to around 1998 when CORBA was being used a lot in the military in my experience.

What other protocols and systems were you thinking of that can provide (depending on broker) hard-realtime delivery that can be used in safety-critical systems?

China's Top Spy Chief Warns A.I. Is a Threat to Party Rule

pixelesque — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:19:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/world/asia/china-ai-security-risks-anthropic.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49701486

Points: 4

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New comment by pixelesque in "Show HN: Pelican-bicycle alternatives"

pixelesque — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:11:33 +0000

Its giraffe / grandfather clock one is pretty bad... (two necks? wearing a suit?)

Weird as well, it's clearly pulled out some 1884 patent on clock designs, and a quick ddg/google doesn't show it as anything to do with grandfather clocks.

New comment by pixelesque in "Military jet triggered UK's latest air traffic meltdown"

pixelesque — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:25:51 +0000

Sounds like it might not have been fully fixed after 2023 then.

New comment by pixelesque in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

pixelesque — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:08:10 +0000

Other than the fact it's mathematicians signing it, why is mathematics special in this regard: surely this generally applies to a lot of different industries and sectors of research / academia?

Mathematics is being used as a benchmark because there are some high-profile awards in this area I guess, and possibly because 2/3 years ago LLMs were pretty atrocious at it so the level of improvement has been significant.

New comment by pixelesque in "iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"

pixelesque — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:16:40 +0000

It's wider though, and surely going to weigh more...

New comment by pixelesque in "Apple debuts iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"

pixelesque — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:11:41 +0000

I wish they'd alternate each year or something between iPhone / iPhone mini if they're struggling for sales.

The body shapes and cases seem to change each year anyway now, so it's not like people get to re-use cases that much anyway...

New comment by pixelesque in "iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"

pixelesque — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:10:50 +0000

Same, got battery replaced 5 months ago.

Wish I'd got the biggest storage size when I bought it though :(

New comment by pixelesque in "DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro"

pixelesque — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:07:07 +0000

Where are you seeing them having an issue with the larger (Pro) model?

The announcement specifically says 4.1 Pro will be released in the future.